3Com H3C IMC PROFESSIONAL PLATFORM Installation Manual

3-13 Installation and DeploymentTo improve the performance of the server, iMC uses the Install andDeploy model. The installation consists of two processes: copyingfiles and starting deployment agent. The components of iMC areoperational only after they are deployed.You can deploy iMC in two ways:z Centralized deployment: All iMC components are deployed to themaster server.z Distributed deployment: Some iMC components are deployed toother servers (slave servers).z The master server is the management center of iMC. It interactswith slave servers to implement network management.z A slave server is responsible for specific management tasks, forexample, tasks performed by Performance Manager and byIntelligent Configuration Center (iCC).z A slave server can only exchange data with the master server.To deploy the components on a slave server, you need to startthe local deployment monitoring agent by accessing the masterserver through IE.When the distributed deployment is used, you can simply access themaster server for performing all management functions.